TBC Classic Destruction Warlock Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your Destruction Warlock in both single-target and multiple-target PvE situations in TBC Classic. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc. in order to minmax your DPS.
Destruction Warlock Rotation
As a Warlock, your main job is to do as much damage as you can, without pulling threat and killing yourself, or worse, wiping the raid. Below, you can find a rundown of the rotation for Destruction Warlocks in TBC Classic.
Fire Destruction Rotation
- Curse of Doom
- Immolate
- Corruption on pull just to aid with threat.
- Incinerate
- Conflagrate only if you have to move and if you do not need to Life Tap. Do NOT use Conflagrate on cooldown or at the end of your Immolates.
It is vital that you obtain and use Flame Cap with your cooldowns, along with constantly watching your threat.
Shadow Destruction Rotation
- Curse of Doom
- Immolate, if you are not wearing a lot of Shadow gear and always if specced into Immolate, Emberstorm or you have a Fire Mage
- Corruption on pull just to aid with threat.
- Shadow Bolt
- Conflagrate only if you have to move and if you do not need to Life Tap. Do NOT use Conflagrate on cooldown or at the end of your Immolates.
It is vital that you constantly watching your threat.
Demon Choice for Destruction Warlocks
Your demon choice will vary depending on whether you are playing as Shadow or Fire Destruction.
- Fire Destruction — Demonic Sacrifice on Summon Imp for single-target, on Summon Succubus for AoE.
- Shadow Destruction — Demonic Sacrifice on Summon Succubus at all times.
Changelog
- 01 Jun. 2021: Guide added.
This guide has been written by Crix, Co-Admin of the Warlock Discord and long time Warlock player. He raids with the guild Fusion and has cleared all WOTLK content as a Warlock, as well as makes Warlock related content on YouTube for Warlocks and streams Warlock gameplay daily over at Twitch.
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